This Week in Elasticsearch - May 28, 2014

Welcome to This Week in Elasticsearch. In this roundup, we try to inform you about the latest and greatest changes in Elasticsearch. We cover what happened in the GitHub repositories, as well as many Elasticsearch events happening worldwide, and give you a small peek into the future of the project.

Elasticsearch core

Field data: Global ordinals cause ClassCastExceptions if used with a bounded fielddata cache (#6260, master and 1.2)

Speaking of Kibana (and Elasticsearch!), you may be interested in reading about the recent hackathon we hosted with the MIT Data Analytics Club. Cool hacks, plus making data visualization simple and beautiful for those without a comp sci background.

Slides & Videos

Where to find Us

We’d love to feature all the great Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana presentations and meetups happening worldwide in this section. If you’re speaking or hosting a meetup, let our Community Manager, Leslie Hawthorn, know!

Poland

Romania

Costin Leau will speak at Topconf Bucharest 2014 on Big data real time search and analytics. Topconf Bucharest runs from June 10-13th and Costin will speak at 3:20 PM on June 12th.

Russia

Honza Kral will speak at PyCon Ru. The schedule is still being finalized, but mark your calendars for June 2nd and 3rd. If you’re heading to PyCon Ru, make sure to say hello to Honza!

New Zealand

The Code Lounge user group in Auckland will get together on June 7th to talk Getting Control of Your Logs. Lots of Logstash love on offer.

Switzerland

Alexander Reelsen will be speaking at Mimacom Days Zurich on June 4th. He will talk about continuous improvement of your data using the ELK stack at 9:45 AM, directly after the conference welcome remarks.

Alexander Reelsen and Britta Weber will be speaking at the Zurich Elasticsearch Meetup on June 7th. Alex will discuss What’s new in Elasticsearch and Britta will cover the Significant Terms Aggregation. Doors open at 7 PM.

United Kingdom

The London Elasticsearch User Group has already announced that there next meeting will take place on June 4th. RSVP now to save your place – this one fills up very quickly!

Elasticsearch will be out in force at London Technology Week. Join us June 17-19th to celebrate all that is fashionable in the UK tech scene, especially at the Networking Bar. Even cooler, on June 17th, Mark Harwood will be telling you all about how to Make sense of your (big) data and analyze in real-time like you have never done before! Mark’s talk is at 4 PM.

United States

This week’s event highlight:Costin Leau will speak at Hadoop Summit North America on Real-time Analytics and Anomalies Detection using Elasticsearch, Hadoop and Storm. The conference runs from June 3-5th in San Jose, California. Costin will take the stage at 4:35 PM on June 3rd.

The Bay Area Search Meetup will welcome our CTO, Shay Banon, on June 3rd. We’re still sorting the final details, but register now. All of our Bay Area meetups fill lightning fast!

The Elasticsearch New York City Meetup group will get together on June 4th at 6:30 PM. Agenda is still being finalized, but you’ll hear from our core developers during the meetup. Many thanks to ThoughtWorks for hosting us!

The Philadelphia Elasticsearch Meetup group will be getting together for their second meetup on June 26th. Details are still in the works, but sign up now so you know where to go for ELK treats on the 26th.

Where to Find You

Our Community Manager, Leslie Hawthorn, is hard at work to help folks create more Elasticsearch meetup groups and to help meetup organizers find more speakers. If you are interested in either effort, take a moment to let her know.

Oh yeah, we’re alsoÂ hiring. If you’d like us to find you for employment purposes, justÂ drop us a note. Â We care more about your skill set and passion for Elasticearch, Kibana and Logstash than where you rest your head.

Trainings

If you are interested in Elasticsearch training we have courses taught by our core developers coming up in: